The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-07
NEW EARTHQUAKE POINTS.
Shocks Every Year in New England
Volcanic Action IN the West.
N-clr IO1L; Tribune.

-Nec York Tribune.
Tie recent dispatch from Summer
vile, near Charleston, giving the IN
formation that shock of earthquake
accompanied with the now familiar
roaring sound, had been experienced,
came so soon after the cable message
announcing earthquake shocks in
Turkestan, that many people were
disposed to believe in the certainty
OF some connection between the two
phenomena.
A gentleman, in fact, called at the
Tribune office on June II, immedi-
atelv after the disaster in Asia Mi.
nor, and predicted renewal of the
seismic shocks in South Carolina
AS that prediction was apparently
verified, though after an interval OF
nine days, a reporter vent to ascer-
tain the views of Professor J. S. New
berry, Of Columbia college, who is
recognized as an authority on seismic
disturbances. The professor plunged
at once into q discussion on the sub
ject, saying that he was opposed to
the views of Sir William Thompson
and others who denied that the CEN
tral part Of the earth was molten.
"That," said he, "is the core of the
matter. I can only give you my
views, and you must not ask me for
the views of other people. To your
question as to whether there was any
connection between the shocks ex-
perienced in southern Europe and
western Asia, and those Of Charleston
and Mexico, l decidedly answer in
the negative. What is an earthquake?
Once the answer would have been
that it was an uncompleted effort of
nature to establish q volcano, but
now the current Of scientific opinion
is that the volcano is but an incident
in the business. An earthquake is
the result Of the contraction of the
earth's crust caused by loss Of heat
through tradition. Did you ever keep
a ounce for the sake of the perfume
among your lineD?'
YES was the answer, Il do it
every year"
Then you must have noticed how
the ounce became wrinkled as it con.
tracted by drying up. Now that is
what is happening 10 the earth, and
the great mountain chains have been
built up as those wrinkles in the
ounce we-c, by the overlapping and
folding up and crushing of substance
through the contraction caused by
loss of heat. Therefore line OF
mountains is q line Of weakness, and
as the process Of contraction is
always going on there will always be
earthquake shocks somewhere along
mountain chains. Now, q volcano is
the result of matter being thrust up
ward from the molten interior, and it
usually is so protruded in great faults
or assures like the Comstock."
do you think tina: there is any in
dication of line Of volcanoes being
established from that one just started
in the Sierra AladTc in Sonora through
Texas and on east and north TO the
Bald mountain, Of whose eccentric
conduct so much has been written?'
"No; but I believe that there is
now in existence line Of volcanic
action from the Sierra Madre to
Arizona, which runs along Q long.ex
tended fault stretching fscm Sonora
mo Arizona, The San Francisco
group mountains in Arizona are, l
believe, volcanoes, and far from ex-
tinct. lit. Taylor in New Mexico
is in the same category. Tie Gas.
cade mountains en- the Pacific slope
contains VOLCANOES that are still &C:
tive, such as Mt>. Shasta. Rainier and
Hood
rfes; but Bald mountain, pro.
fessor! Are the AIicghanies entirely
| outside Of all these Interesting de.
velopments:"
You seem to want volcano on
! tie Atlantic side
Are there no hopes for Paid n:onn
:a;:@%?'
None. believe.>
Are there no hopes Of q volcano
rising from the sea somewhere in the
! southeast cf Cha@!e2:cn??&
! '':Nonc that I am aware or; but you
ought to have lived in tile Trlassic
Age, which was the volcanic epoch OF
this part Of America, and then you